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This week Cambridge is having its face washed, favorably in some spots, forcibly in others. It is Clean Up Week.

As part of a suspected move toward Godliness, next to which reporters claim, is Cleanliness, City officials are sponsoring a vast campaign to clean Cambridge's ears, paint Cambridge's cheek, and fix Cambridge's broken nose. Campaign heads expect the College to participate in the ears division.

Thoroughout most of the City the move is being met with zeal. But there are a few hold out areas.

Notable is a notorious den on Upper Plympton Street, where a CRIMSON photographer, disguised as a opium smoker with a camera hidden in his pigtail, snapped this picture. Police threaten to resort to DDT bombs unless the nest of uncleanligodliness is cleaned up by the end of the week.

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